[PATCH v2] KVM: TDX: Force split irqchip for TDX at irqchip creation time

Sagi Shahar
2025-08-27T01:17:36Z

TDX module protects the EOI-bitmap which prevents the use of in-kernel
I/O APIC. See more details in the original patch [1]

The current implementation already enforces the use of split irqchip for
TDX but it does so at the vCPU creation time which is generally to late
to fallback to split irqchip.

This patch follows Sean's recomendation from [2] and move the check if
I/O APIC is supported for the VM at irqchip creation time.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250222014757.897978-11-binbin.wu@linux.intel.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aK3vZ5HuKKeFuuM4@google.com/

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@google.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c | 6 ++++++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 9 +++++++++
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index f19a76d3ca0e..6a4019d3a184 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -1357,6 +1357,7 @@ struct kvm_arch {
u8 vm_type;
bool has_private_mem;
bool has_protected_state;
+ bool has_protected_eoi;
bool pre_fault_allowed;
struct hlist_head *mmu_page_hash;
struct list_head active_mmu_pages;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
index 66744f5768c8..9637d9da1af1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
@@ -658,6 +658,12 @@ int tdx_vm_init(struct kvm *kvm)
*/
kvm->max_vcpus = min_t(int, kvm->max_vcpus, num_present_cpus());

+ /*
+ * TDX Module doesn't allow the hypervisor to modify the EOI-bitmap,
+ * i.e. all EOIs are accelerated and never trigger exits.
+ */
+ kvm->arch.has_protected_eoi = true;
+
kvm_tdx->state = TD_STATE_UNINITIALIZED;

return 0;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index a1c49bc681c4..57b4d5ba2568 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -6966,6 +6966,15 @@ int kvm_arch_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl, unsigned long arg)
if (irqchip_in_kernel(kvm))
goto create_irqchip_unlock;

+ /*
+ * Disallow an in-kernel I/O APIC if the VM has protected EOIs,
+ * i.e. if KVM can't intercept EOIs and thus can't properly
+ * emulate level-triggered interrupts.
+ */
+ r = -ENOTTY;
+ if (kvm->arch.has_protected_eoi)
+ goto create_irqchip_unlock;
+
r = -EINVAL;
if (kvm->created_vcpus)
goto create_irqchip_unlock;
--
2.51.0.261.g7ce5a0a67e-goog